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Media Myth Alert is a Web log that periodically calls attention to the appearance and publication of media-driven myths — stories about and/or by the news media that are widely believed and often retold but which, under scrutiny, prove to be apocryphal or wildly exaggerated.

Media Myth Alert also seeks to promote Getting It Wrong, which was published in 2010 by University of California Press.

The author of Media Myth Alert is W. Joseph Campbell, a tenured full professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. He is a former professional journalist, having reported for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Hartford Courant, and the Associated Press in a 20-year career that took him across North America to Europe, Asia, and West Africa.

[…] tyrannical reign and leading to his censure by the Senate. However, journalism professor W. Joseph Campbell of American University in Washington, D.C., argues the praise of Murrow may reach beyond the […]